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Sentence Structure Bundle - Simple, Compound, Complex, & Compound-Complex Types

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This creative, scaffolded sentence structure unit engages students and breaks down challenging concepts into bite-sized pieces. In these sentence types lessons, students will learn how to craft simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar, ELA Test Prep

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Google Apps, Lesson

CCSS:

L.7.1, L.7.1a, L.7.1b, L.7.2, L.8.1, L.8.2a, L.9-10.1, L.9-10.1b, L.9-10.2a

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$23.00

247

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Avoiding Plagiarism Unit: Engaging Plagiarism Lessons - Academic Integrity

By Reading and Writing Haven

Plagiarism...what a "downer" topic! For years, I dreaded teaching it because students thought I was the Wicked Witch who was out to get them for every missing quotation mark in their essays (or at least that's how I felt as I taught them about the

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing, Writing-Essays

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Google Apps, Lesson

CCSS:

W.7.8, W.8.8, W.9-10.8, W.11-12.8

$9.00

449

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Texting Couplets: Poetry Writing Assignment Digital and Print

By Reading and Writing Haven

Engage your students in a poem writing experience that focuses on rhythm, rhyme, and any other poetic elements of your choice with this creative texting couplets assignment for twenty-first century learners. What gets students excited? Pictures and

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing, Poetry

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Graphic Organizers

CCSS:

W.6.4, W.6.5, W.6.10, W.7.4, W.7.5, W.7.10, W.8.4, W.8.5, W.8.10

$3.25

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Grammar Games Bundle for Practice and Review Activities Grades 7 - 12

By Reading and Writing Haven

Looking for a way to assess students' knowledge in an engaging, student-centered format? This bundle contains four entertaining grammar games to practice or review the basic building blocks of any grammar instruction. It's an awesome activity for

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar, ELA Test Prep

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Games

CCSS:

L.7.1, L.7.2, L.7.3, L.8.1, L.8.2, L.8.3, L.9-10.1, L.9-10.2a, L.9-10.3, L.11-12.1

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$14.00

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Conjunctions Bundle: Coordinating, Correlative, Subordinating, Conjunctive Adv.

By Reading and Writing Haven

This bundle of conjunctions materials is a perfect complement to any middle or high school teacher's existing conjunction tools. It's intended use is to provide students with extra practice and repetition in both recognizing and utilizing all four

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar, ELA Test Prep

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, Homeschool

Types:

Worksheets, Handouts, Lesson

CCSS:

L.6.1, L.7.1, L.8.1, L.9-10.1, L.11-12.1

$16.00

$13.64

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Differentiated Vocabulary Practice Task Cards and Assignments for Any Word List

By Reading and Writing Haven

Do you want your students to become word wizards? I know I do! I am SO excited about these brain-based, creative, differentiated, and engaging vocabulary practice task cards! This file includes 23 different tasks for students to complete

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Vocabulary, For All Subject Areas

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, Homeschool

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Task Cards

CCSS:

L.7.4, L.7.5, L.7.6, L.8.4, L.8.5, L.8.6, L.9-10.4, L.9-10.5, L.9-10.6, L.11-12.4, L.11-12.5...

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212

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Reading Guide for ANY Short Story or Novel - Digital & Print

By Reading and Writing Haven

Short story units are popular with teens...and fun to teach! What's NOT fun is making individual reading guides for every short story we teach. This build-your-own reading guide is a great print or digital resource for anyone who is looking for a

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, Homeschool

Types:

Worksheets, Centers

CCSS:

RL.7.1, RL.7.2, RL.7.3, RL.7.4, RL.7.10, RL.8.1, RL.8.2, RL.8.3, RL.8.4, RL.8.10, RL.9-10.1...

$4.50

125

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Conjunctive Adverbs Practice Worksheets

By Reading and Writing Haven

This resource is perfect for any teacher who needs to briefly introduce and/or review the concept of conjunctive adverbs. It's also great for those who want to provide a little extra practice for their students. This activity is designed to

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar, ELA Test Prep

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, Homeschool

Types:

Worksheets, Printables, Lesson

CCSS:

L.5.1, L.6.1, L.7.1, L.8.1, L.9-10.1

$3.00

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Grocabulary Bundle: Subjects, Predicates, Phrases, Clauses, & Sentence Types

By Reading and Writing Haven

Looking for fun extra practice grammar exercises? These Grocabulary resources are something I made in an effort to make grammar more fun and engaging for both students and teachers. It consists of three grammar practice exercises. Each grocabulary

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar, Vocabulary

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, Homeschool

Types:

Worksheets

CCSS:

L.6.1, L.6.2, L.7.1, L.7.2, L.8.1, L.8.2, L.9-10.1, L.9-10.2, L.11-12.1, L.11-12.2

$3.50

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Stages of the Writing Process Minilesson and Sorting Activity

By Reading and Writing Haven

Looking for a quick and easy way to introduce your students to the stages or steps of the writing process? Look no further. Prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, publishing - students confuse them all too often.This concise and appealing

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing, Writing-Essays

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, Homeschool

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Lesson

CCSS:

W.5.2, W.6.2, W.7.2, W.8.2, W.9-10.2

$3.47

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Romeo and Juliet Figurative Language & Literary Terms by Act

By Reading and Writing Haven

So you know you need to teach literary terms with Romeo and Juliet, but where do you start? It can be time-consuming and just plain overwhelming to sit down with one of the Bard's plays and try to analyze each line for literary devices. Have no

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Poetry

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, Homeschool

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Handouts, Lesson

CCSS:

K.CC.A.3, K.CC.B.4, K.CC.C.6, RL.8.4, RL.8.10, RL.9-10.4, RL.9-10.10

$8.99

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Introduction to the Historical Fiction Genre Lesson

By Reading and Writing Haven

Historical fiction is one of the most interesting literary genres, and it's important for students to be able to distinguish between it and nonfiction. One of the ways I help students to navigate and analyze texts intelligently is by providing

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Literature

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, Homeschool

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Scaffolded Notes, Lesson

CCSS:

RL.6.10, RL.7.10, RL.8.10, RL.9-10.10

$4.50

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Poetry Analysis Journal Writing Prompts for Any Poem Digital & Print

By Reading and Writing Haven

These poetry journal writing prompts are intended to help students respond to poems in a thoughtful way while deepening their comprehension of the text. It contains twenty response-to-reading prompts that can be used with almost any poem and is

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing, Poetry

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool

Types:

Worksheets, Assessment, Centers

CCSS:

RL.6.1, RL.6.2, RL.6.4, RL.6.5, RL.6.9, RL.6.10, RL.7.1, RL.7.2, RL.7.4, RL.7.5, RL.7.9...

$4.25

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Summarizing Nonfiction Texts Practice

By Reading and Writing Haven

Summarizing nonfiction texts can be somewhat daunting for both students and teachers alike. It's pretty simple to teach students how to write a fictional summary. Just break it down by the plot. When it comes to nonfiction, non-narrative texts, it's

Subjects:

Writing, Reading Strategies, Informational Text

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, Homeschool

Types:

Worksheets, Lesson

CCSS:

RI.8.2

$3.00

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Music as Poetry Analysis Activity for Any Song - Digital and Print

By Reading and Writing Haven

Teaching students to analyze poetry can be challenging. This free resource uses pop culture music (almost any song of your choosing will work) to engage students in discussion about lyric poems. Song analysis activities make teaching poetry

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading Strategies, Poetry

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Centers

CCSS:

RL.8.1, RL.8.4, RL.8.10, RL.9-10.1, RL.9-10.4, RL.9-10.10, RL.11-12.1, RL.11-12.4, RL.11-12.10

FREE

277

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The Ultimate Engaging Romeo and Juliet Vocabulary Bundle for Acts 1-5

By Reading and Writing Haven

Are you concerned your students aren't going to enjoy reading Romeo and Juliet? Shakespeare can be challenging, but I've found success by scaffolding students' understanding of Early Modern English - in part - by preparing them to encounter some

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Vocabulary, Literature

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Games

CCSS:

L.9-10.4, L.9-10.4a, L.9-10.4c, L.9-10.4d

$15.00

$12.00

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Picture-Inspired Poetry Writing Assignment

By Reading and Writing Haven

Motivate students to write poetry in a fun, engaging way...by using pictures! This picture-inspired poetry brainstorming assignment is a great way for students to organize their thoughts before actually writing a poem based on images. It's

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing, Poetry

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Centers

CCSS:

W.6.4, W.6.5, W.6.10, W.7.4, W.7.5, W.7.10, W.8.4, W.8.5, W.8.10, W.9-10.4, W.9-10.5...

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Romeo and Juliet Reading Guide Bundle Acts 1-5

By Reading and Writing Haven

This Romeo and Juliet reading guide bundle is the ultimate teacher-tested bundle of Shakespeare goodness. Each reading guide (Acts 1 - 5) contains the following:Anticipatory statements (to get students thinking before they read)Comprehension

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Literature

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, Homeschool

Types:

Study Guides, Worksheets

CCSS:

RL.8.1, RL.8.2, RL.8.3, RL.8.4, RL.8.10, RL.9-10.1, RL.9-10.2, RL.9-10.3, RL.9-10.4, RL.9-10.10

$17.48

$11.99

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Reading Tips for Parents and Recommended Reading List for Secondary Students

By Reading and Writing Haven

Do parents ever approach you for advice? Their child hates reading, and they don't know what to do.At least several times each year, parents ask me this question. It's important that teachers are able to answer this question and equip parents with

Subjects:

Reading, For All Subject Areas, Reading Strategies

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, Homeschool

Types:

Handouts, Printables, For Parents

FREE

Digital Download ZIP (21.12 MB)

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Writing Survey for Secondary - Digital and Print

By Reading and Writing Haven

This writing survey is a fun and engaging way to assess middle and high school students' previous experiences with and attitudes about writing. It could be used at the beginning of the school year or semester (depending on how your school structures

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing, Writing-Essays

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, Homeschool

Types:

Worksheets, Google Apps

CCSS:

W.7.10, W.8.10, W.9-10.10, W.11-12.10

FREE

Digital Download PDF (1.64 MB)

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

I have taught 7-12 grade English for eleven years and been an instructional coach for seven. During this time, I've worked in a co-taught inclusion setting as well as with enriched and gifted / talented students. Over the past several years, I've developed an interest in teacher evaluation. To this end, I've been a leader on our school's evaluation committee and helped to educate staff about Charlotte Danielson's evaluation rubric as well as how teachers can excel in all four domains. I've successfully implemented a flipped classroom, differentiated learnings experiences, and NME practices. My passions at the secondary level are literacy and differentiation, but I truly enjoy all things ELA.

MY TEACHING STYLE

I love to try new things with my students. Generally, I believe introducing new content through direct instruction via minilessons is the most successful approach for high school students, but I also use chunking throughout every class period. In this way, I move from teacher-centered to peer-driven activities and eventually independent practice. I love student-centered activities that involve students kinesthetically, musically, and creatively. Whenever possible, I look for ways to provide low-floor, high-ceiling learning experiences that spark students' curiosity and provide access points for all learners.

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MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

Bachelor: English Master 1: Curriculum and Instruction Master 2: Reading Certification: Middle School Certification: Gifted Certification: Reading Specialist

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